I hope those "brothers" who wanted your uncle to lose his seniority
did not prevail.
They were obviously crooked and did not care about integrity, honesty,
etc. How could one even expect them to be able to competently
railroad.
sjl
--- In BRHSlist@y..., qutlx1@a... wrote:
> Now that you read the Streator Wye story about Uncle Bill I can add
to the
> name change story.Seems that after Bill hired on he decided to
shorten his
> name to lessen his obvious German ties. SO he went to the courthouse
and
> legally shortened his name.Now he went to the union meeting (BRT) to
announce
> the change and ask that the seniority roster be updated. Well it
seems that a
> number of "brothers" (younger in seniority than he) objected on the
grounds
> that the name change meant he should have a new seniority date
effective with
> name change?! So much for brotherly support and fraternity.As it was
always
> said all you had was your seniority!!!!!!
> Leo
>
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